According to Al
Jazeera Center for Studies, Shaykh Nash’at Ahmad is
affiliated with the Egyptian Salafi movement which was subjected to
security restrictions and even arrest and trial in various cases
related to fatwas, or Islamic edicts, urging the support of
Mujahideen (Muslims who engage in jihad) in Palestine and justifying
the 9/11 attacks.

The following are excerpts from Shaykh Nash’at Ahmad‘s sermons
in Egypt (originally in Arabic):

April 10,
2018 – “[O Allah] give us victory over the disbelieving
people… Destroy them [enemies
of Islam]… count their number; slay them one by one
and spare not one of them.”

January
6, 2016: “O Allah, destroy the Jews and whom they
ally with… count their number; slay them one by one and spare
not one of them.”

January
2, 2016: “[O Allah] give victory to our brother in Greater
Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Burma, Mali, Yemen and other Muslim
countries… O Allah, take revenge of the enemies of Your religion. O
Allah, destroy the Jews and all others who support them in
countries around the world… O Allah, destroy the Russians,
Hindus, Shiites Communists, destroy all those who attacked the
Muslims. O Lord, count their number; slay them one by one and spare
not one of them. O Allah, purify the Muslims lands from their filth
and squalor, O Allah liberate the imprisoned Al-Aqsa [mosque].”

October 5, 2016: “[O Allah] Destroy the Russians and purify the Muslim lands from their filth. O Lord, destroy all aggressors, including the Shiites, Bashr [Assad], Alawites and others. O Allah, destroy the the aggressors who are the Jews and those who support them… O Allah, they corrupted your land and You do not like the corruption… O Allah, purify the Muslim land from their filth and squalor. O Allah, purify imprisoned al-Aqsa [mosque] from their hands [of the Jews] . O Allah, restore the Caliphate [Islamic State] for
the Muslims.”

April 6,
2016: “O Allah don’t give the infidel or the
oppressor a way to overcome us… Destroy the Jews, the
Christians, the Americans, the Europeans, the Shiites, the
Communists, the Russians, the Hindus, the traitors, the
oppressors and the criminals.”

October
26, 2016: “O Allah, return the Muslims countries to
the Muslims and purify [the Muslim lands] from the filth of the
infidels and the polytheists [also identified by Muslim scholars
as Christians].”

Jim Richards: Has your mosque ever been involved
in one of the situations where perhaps a speaker, an Imam from
another country was turned out to be a bit of an embarrassment for
you guys?

Ibrahim Hindy: It did happen once. There was a
request. Somebody came in to say, there’s a speaker, he’s from
another country and he’s got these impressive credentials and can he
come speak and, like I said, I’m one employee and I don’t have time
to, like, check all his lectures, and actually that day my daughter
was really sick and I took her to SickKids Hospital, she were there
for a few weeks, and I didn’t even, I wasn’t even there. I didn’t
meet this guy. Apparently, you know, he came, he gave a speech and,
you know, he didn’t say anything really wrong in it, but then I found
out later and I was embarrassed later that in other countries yet
said things that really were anti-Semitic, not only anti-Semitic, a
couple other things he said that were kind of hateful towards other
countries and I had no idea, right, so I mean I felt embarrassed. I
reach out to the Jewish community right after that cause I felt, I
felt really bad about that, and you know it’s challenging, but we
have to do better.

Background

On December 13, 2016, Ibrahim Hindy posted
(and later deleted the post) on his Facebook account the following:

“Join me tonight at Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre after
Isha prayers at 7PM. Shaykh Nash’at Ahmad, a well-known scholar
from Egypt, will be speaking. I don’t know what the topic will be,
as his arrival was made known to us last minute, but I’m sure that
he will touch upon the recent tragedies in Aleppo.”

Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre invited
the pubic to Shaykh Nash’at Ahmad’s speech at the Centre on
December 13, 2016 while providing the following background
information about the Egyptian speaker:

Shaykh Nash’at Ahmad – Renowned Scholar from Egypt; –
Student of Shaykh AbdulHameed Kishk, Shaykh Hassan Ayub and many
others; Graduate from Al-Azhar in Usool al-Deen and from ‘Ain Shams
in Qira’at. MA from American Open University in Islamic Studies.
Current PHD candidate; Tazkiya from renowned scholars such as
Muhammad Abdel-Maqsood and Muhammad Ismail al-Muqaddam.